Chapter 164: The head of the twenty-four heroes of Lingyan Pavilion

Li Xiuning received the news that Mr. Du was arrested, and it was already early the next morning.

After interrogation, Du Gong also confessed truthfully, but he was just a minion. Du Gong's name was Du Jingtong, and he was the son of Du Yan, a soldier in the King's Mansion of the Former Qin Dynasty and the son of Du Yan, a scholar in Hongwenguan.

At the beginning, Chen Ying did not blame Du Jingtong because he was in a state of misfortune that his family members had not been as good as his family. Who knew that he had successfully escaped from the Central Plains at the end of the seventh year of Wude, and had a life of death. He arrived in the Fusang Tang Dynasty. He was appointed as the Minister of the Secretariat by Li Shimin and was named Duke of Dongyang County.

This assassination was led by Du Jingtong, who infiltrated the Central Plains.

Li Xiuning was very angry, and the consequences were very serious.

Then someone is in trouble.

First, at the instruction of Li Xiuning, the left civil ministry of the imperial court announced this year's grain output and Changping warehouse inventory. As a result, due to the Goguryeo War in the imperial court, Changping warehouse inventory decreased and Changping warehouse needed to supplement the Changping grain.

As soon as the news was announced, the price of grain in Guanzhong rose in response to the news. Immediately afterwards, the imperial court introduced a new policy. Due to the sharp decline in grain inventory in the official warehouse, it is necessary to strengthen the control of the sales of rice, rice, flour, potatoes, sweet potato starch and other products to reduce grain outflows.

The people of the world agreed with this, because the court was fighting against Goguryeo. Listening to the Xueyantuo people of Yudu soldiers rebelled, it was inevitable that the Anbei Protectorate's Office would increase troops to quell the rebellion. Before the troops moved, the food and grass would come first. No one knew what the harvest would be next year. In this era, it was basically up to God to give food. It would be better to hide the stored food to deal with the possible famine year.

At this time, Guanzhong grains canceled the original grain delivery one after another, and would rather pay a huge liquidated damages than make physical delivery.

Guanzhong is actually the most industrialized area in the Tang Dynasty except Anxi. The production capacity of 50 million kilograms of steel, as well as the production capacity of millions of armor and weapons, are concentrated in Guanzhong, not to mention that there are 200,000 to 300,000 troops. According to incomplete statistics, the population in Guanzhong that needs to buy food and eat has exceeded 2 million.

Calculated at the price of three liters of rice per person per day, this number will be about eight million stones. With the long-term closing of the position, the food gap will be approximately 15 million stones, or even more.

The entire Guanzhong suddenly became panicked, especially the common people, who immediately took out their savings and rushed to buy grain, and the prices of grain rose like rockets. The major grain shops were not fools. They knew that the opportunity had come when they saw this momentum. They all said that the grain had been sold out and closed down. At the same time, they went to various townships to purchase grain and stock up, preparing to do a big deal.

Then, the familiar routine came: the people who were completely panicked with the savings begging their grandparents to buy some food, and most of the grain shops closed down and closed down, but they were changing all the time, and they taught you how to be a human being in every minute!

Soon, the desperate people discovered that their monthly income was not enough to buy a bag of brown rice.

In just over ten days, the food crisis swept across major cities in Guanzhong. More and more people were short of food, and fewer and fewer grain shops were still in business.

I barely bought a little grain, but it became moldy, and at least 20% of the sand leaked. I couldn’t eat it without sifting it. Such grain is still priceless and has no market. I am very popular, but I have to talk to the grain merchants. I said directly: "If you like to buy, buy, get out of buying!"

There is not even a place to reason.

The price of salt and oil also soared. Even the potato noodles, which have always been known for their low prices, have risen to 500 cents per stone. Needless to say, rice and wheat, the price of grain is like a mad dog, flying and biting people.

The Guanzhong grain merchants have just recovered from the last battle of food hunger in Guanzhong. Seeing such a good opportunity, they fueled the fire, trying every means to create panic and raise the price of grain. At the same time, they tried every means to find a source of grain. No matter how high the price is, they will buy as long as there is food.

The wool comes from the sheep. How much does it cost when they purchase goods? The poor people have to pay back twice as much when buying grain. What are they afraid of?

Two months later, it was a time when the weather was in trouble.

The price of grain has risen to ten cents of silver per stone, and the people of Guanzhong are almost going to jump into the river. They can’t afford to sell their children and women! The profiteers felt that it was almost done. With the order, the major grain store opened and the grain supply finally recovered. However, the people of Jiangnan were already desperate. Even if the supply of grain was restored, they could not afford it!

However, after the grain market was reopened, the situation was a bit strange. The Anxi Railway Transportation Corporation of Datang announced a new transportation cost system. In order to deal with the old grain in Anxi over the years, any merchants who transported grain to Guanzhong would subsidize three stagnant of each stone of grain and deduct it from the transportation cost.

In this way, the food cost of Anxi transported to Chang'an was only 50 cents per stone, which was almost equivalent to free delivery.

The key is that Anxi has accumulated too much grain. Even if you try hard to make wine, the price is still around ten cents per bucket.

Originally, the transportation cost restricted the circulation of grain, but now that this barrier has been eliminated, merchants began to transport grain to Guanzhong after hearing the news. However, the transportation capacity of the train is amazing. Even if half of it is used to load other goods, each truck can still transport up to ten thousand stones of grain. The cost of this ten thousand stones of grain, plus the transportation cost, is only 1,500 stag, which can be made sixty or seventy times by re-sale.

As Marx said in "Das Kapital", capitalists can take risks for fifty percent of profits, and dare to trample on any law in the world for 100% of profits. With 300% of profits, they dare to risk being on the hang.

But now, stimulated by the profit of 60 to 70 times, the merchants completely ignored the warnings of the aristocratic families. They acted at the news and tried their best to transport the food from Anxi to Guanzhong.

As the load of grain from one train was transported to the railway station of Anhuafang, Chang'an City, the grain prices in Guanzhong plummeted.

The people of Guanzhong agreed with the plummeting grain prices. After all, no one knows what the grain harvest will be next year. Anyway, the food price is low, so you can take the opportunity to buy some and save it.

The grain merchants in Guanzhong are actually Guanlong nobles and aristocratic families in the world. Only they own countless lands and a large amount of food. As the food prices plummeted, they also began to get anxious.

Seeing that there is plenty of rain today, a bumper harvest is inevitable. They have already accumulated enough food. If Anxi grains occupy the Guanzhong grain market, what awaits them will be a dead end.

At the most critical moment, a huge news came. General Anton and Li Shiji, the great defender of Anton Protectorate, captured Pyongyang City after three months of bloody battle, captured Gao Jianwu and more than 1,600 princes and nobles, and Goguryeo surrendered the whole country.

According to Chen Ying's previous proposal, Li Shiji established four towns of Andong Protectorate, and directly incorporated Goguryeo into the Tang Dynasty.

This shock had not yet brought the people of Guanzhong to their senses, but another tsunami-like news came again. Songtsen Gampo led more than 50,000 to take the oath to rebel against the Tang Dynasty at the foot of Namucuo Mountain.

As a result, the roar of the rebels caused an avalanche. More than 50,000 rebels, without any effort, were buried alive at the foot of the Mucuo Mountain. They were more than a month long by Tang soldiers, and finally dug out, but all turned into ice sculptures.

As the weather warmed, in order to prevent Li Jiancheng from getting angry, the soldiers of the Anxi Protectorate's Office only made Songtsen's cloth into bacon and transported it back to Chang'an.

As for the most fatal blow to the Guanzhong grain merchants, Bazhuo's army was attacking Yinshan and preparing to follow the Yinshan trail to the Guanzhong bandit border.

Li Daozong, the nameless king of Jiangxia, led 30,000 Tang soldiers to set up an ambush in Yinshan. After three days and three nights of fierce fighting, Bazhuo's commanded 70,000 rebels, more than 50,000 were killed and more than 10,000 surrendered. As for where did the other more than 10,000 men go?

It is just in line with the saying, dust returns to dust, soil returns to soil, they care for the grass on the Yinshan grassland like spring mud.

To make matters worse, the court announced a fatal news at this time. It turned out that the newly established audit department was an old and dizzy official. Because he misread the numbers during the statistics, he missed the six million stones of grain that had been closed.

The court must resolutely deal with such officials who have neglected their duties and will never tolerate them. This official was dismissed from office and investigated. Even Xu Jingzong, the doctor of the Bijun, fined him 500 kilograms of copper for statistics errors.

Five hundred kilograms of copper coins sounds a lot, but in fact it is not much. The money is about seven kilograms per month, but five hundred kilograms is more than seventy kilograms. I am afraid that a high-quality prostitute in the north of Chang'an City will have more than this price.

The price of grain plummeted, and the people were waiting and watching, hoping to buy cheaper food. The people of Guanzhong were falsely alarmed, and except for trying to free up the remaining money to buy more food, they didn't say anything. Guanzhong grain merchants... No, to be precise, the Guanzhong clans didn't say anything either. They were vomiting blood and could not say anything!

The grain chaos lasted only for two months, but it caused the Guanzhong clans and grain merchants to lose more than 20 million tanes of money and grain. Although the people were still scared of the crazy price of grain, the wealthy businessmen who lost their pants during the hoarding market were wailing. Now it was their turn to make sense and find the land.

On the banks of the Weishui River, you can see a few well-dressed rich men wearing Lingluo silk and satin crying and laughing at the banks of the river. When they see the surging river water, they close their eyes and jump directly into it.

They are all crazy!

There is no way to be crazy. In the two-month food chaos, these guys who have always been accustomed to making money from the national crisis and making black money first got rich overnight, and then their wealth disappeared overnight. They also owe a lot of debts, divorced their wives and children, and lost their entire family. How can these guys who love money like their lives afford such a blow!

When I learned that I was the fish in the game, especially when they purchased the food in the second month, the prices were six or seven cents, and finally the price of the food fell to fifteen cents per bucket.

A stone of grain lost six or seven cents of yuan, and it was strange that they did not vomit blood. Many black-hearted grain merchants and stock traders went crazy immediately. They wore those gorgeous clothes and swayed across the market, cried and made a big fuss. They jumped into the river and hanged themselves. For a time, the tragedy of family destruction occurred frequently. A few corpses floated from time to time in the beautiful Weishui River. One or two corpses swayed like grouse hanging under the eaves on the trees by the river, adding a bit of terrifying atmosphere!

"thump……"

Someone jumped into the river again, but in the black-sailed boat located in the Weishui River, the people sitting on the deck didn't even raise their heads.

Guo Luo pushed Zhou Qing beside him and said, "How many are you today?"

"Not many, only thirty-one!"

Zhou Qing spat at the rich businessman who fell into the river and angrily cursed: "I deserve it!"

Looking at Chen Ying who was sleeping soundly on the deck.

Guo Luo made a ban on voice gesture.

This war without gunpowder was actually Chen Ying's behind the scenes.

At this moment, another black-sailed boat slowly approached.

Wei Zheng jumped over from the black-sailed boat.

Chen Ying still seemed to be unconscious.

This time, I was really afraid that Chen Ying would be scared. He was in a coma for three days and three nights in a row. Thanks to Sun Simiao's use of blood transfusion, Chen Ying came alive.

However, Chen Ying's body seemed to be hurting his vitality. He was very afraid of the cold and did not like stoves. Instead, he liked to bask in the sun.

Only by living in the sun and breathing can Chen Ying feel like a person.

Wei Zheng bowed to Chen Ying, sat in the cabin as if no one was around, and poured himself a plate of vinegar celery on the table table.

Wei Zheng smiled and said, "General, when will you be willing to return to the court?"

Chen Ying finally moved: "I am alive and make so many people feel uneasy, so it's better to let me die!"

"The food war made them feel the problem!" Wei Zheng shook his head and said, "They stopped in time later. According to their greedy nature, ten guans of each stone are not the peak at all. Examples of Doumiji and Ten Thousand Coins have happened many times in Guanzhong!"

Chen Ying stood up and looked at Wei Zheng and said, "Your real opponent is here!"

"who?"

"What do you think?"

"Fang Mou Duan?" Wei Zheng suddenly realized: "Du Ruhui, is he back?"

Chen Ying said: "Of course, he is the only one who is so decisive!"

A flash of excitement flashed in Wei Zheng's eyes and said, "It's interesting, it's so interesting! Only by competing with him can you live a life worthwhile!"

Chen Ying said: "That's your business, I'll pass on a message to Your Majesty for me!"

"If you don't spread it, you should tell me it yourself!"

"Don't see you!" Chen Ying smiled bitterly, "I didn't expect him to be so fragile and grow old overnight!"

"That's not because of you!"

Wei Zheng said angrily: "The prince is nineteen years old, and you still need to take care of him!"

"Okay, stop tempting!" Chen Ying said: "I want to be the life-care minister, will you rest assured?"

Wei Zheng smiled awkwardly and said, "Your Majesty had a dream yesterday!"

"Oh!" Chen Yingcao responded.

Wei Zheng said: "Your Majesty had a very strange dream. Your Majesty saw a very strange scene in the dream. At Xuanwu Gate, he dreamed that he was buried in the middle and was shot to death by Li Shimin with a bow. Cheng Zhijie waved his knife and cut off his head..."

"You won't really believe it, do you?" Chen Ying was already in a cold sweat.

Li Jiancheng's dream is the most real thing in history.

Wei Zheng shook his head and said, "Fang Xuanling told me about the plan of Tiance Mansion..."
To be continued...